“It was the night that the power went out in Berkeley that he'd finished Joyce's Finnegan's Wake by the light of a candle. Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.”

“Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.”

“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

“Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.”

“Put out the light and then put out the light.”

“Lestat, what did I say last night?' he asked. 'You are the damnedest creature!”

“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”